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Song Parodies -> "Something About Racism"
Original Song Title:
"Surrey With the Fringe On Top"
Original Performer:
Rodgers & Hammerstein
Parody Song Title:
"Something About Racism"
Parody Written by:
Al Silver
The Lyrics
When I take you lynchin' out with me
Honey, this is what we're gonna see
We'll be standin' in a crowd of snow-white Aryans
At a picnic like you've never seen
Spics, Canucks and Greeks better scurry
When I take them out in a flurry
When I take them out in a flurry with my M16
Watch my finger squeezin' the trigger
As I shoot a quick-steppin' Migger
Southern belles will titter and snigger at the sportin' scene
The Chinks are yellow, the rag-heads are brown
The sheenies are cheatin' tight-fisters
The Miggers are tryin' to lie right down
On top of our pure and chaste sisters
All the micks are drinkin' and stinkin'
Most are uglier than that Lincoln
Mighty glad the Booth guy shot Lincoln -- Act III, Second Scene
Which is why the Southern holiday is April 14
Would you say the sheenies like to schmooze?
Bet your life those sheenies like to schmooze!
Would you say that all the micks are sloppy drunkards?
Micks need drink, the Miggers like to snooze
Look around the world -- it's not cutesy
Hutus are dismemb'ring the Tutsi
Hellfire missiles hit wedding parties and it's all obscene
Till we're rid of all colored rapists
And the Eye-talians (who are papists)
All God's peoples surely will stay pissed and be wicked mean!
The cross is burning in the field as we ride
A sheenie swings from a tether
The Johnny Reb song of the battle is cried
By killer birds of a feather
Do you wish they'd go on forever?
Do you wish they'd go on forever?
Do you wish they'd go on forever?
Till the world is clean
And the master's face is pure white as the field is pure green
Dusk to night are soon to be wedded
Dixie sun has gone to be bedded
Christian folk are being beheaded --
A familiar scene
I can see a reb flag unfurlin'
See the crooked cross once in Berlin
What does it all mean?
The words are pourin' from the dark of my mouth
And runnin' coarsely together
Wop kraut slope Chink Migger Nip dago frog kike
And fairies and dykes dressed in leather
Hush, my mouth. The fools are a-listenin'
Past our graveyards they are a-whistlin'
Human beasts at you are a-bristlin'
And they're very mean
Stow that crap in what you're yappin'
Or report to the Dean!
Honey, this is what we're gonna see
We'll be standin' in a crowd of snow-white Aryans
At a picnic like you've never seen
Spics, Canucks and Greeks better scurry
When I take them out in a flurry
When I take them out in a flurry with my M16
Watch my finger squeezin' the trigger
As I shoot a quick-steppin' Migger
Southern belles will titter and snigger at the sportin' scene
The Chinks are yellow, the rag-heads are brown
The sheenies are cheatin' tight-fisters
The Miggers are tryin' to lie right down
On top of our pure and chaste sisters
All the micks are drinkin' and stinkin'
Most are uglier than that Lincoln
Mighty glad the Booth guy shot Lincoln -- Act III, Second Scene
Which is why the Southern holiday is April 14
Would you say the sheenies like to schmooze?
Bet your life those sheenies like to schmooze!
Would you say that all the micks are sloppy drunkards?
Micks need drink, the Miggers like to snooze
Look around the world -- it's not cutesy
Hutus are dismemb'ring the Tutsi
Hellfire missiles hit wedding parties and it's all obscene
Till we're rid of all colored rapists
And the Eye-talians (who are papists)
All God's peoples surely will stay pissed and be wicked mean!
The cross is burning in the field as we ride
A sheenie swings from a tether
The Johnny Reb song of the battle is cried
By killer birds of a feather
Do you wish they'd go on forever?
Do you wish they'd go on forever?
Do you wish they'd go on forever?
Till the world is clean
And the master's face is pure white as the field is pure green
Dusk to night are soon to be wedded
Dixie sun has gone to be bedded
Christian folk are being beheaded --
A familiar scene
I can see a reb flag unfurlin'
See the crooked cross once in Berlin
What does it all mean?
The words are pourin' from the dark of my mouth
And runnin' coarsely together
Wop kraut slope Chink Migger Nip dago frog kike
And fairies and dykes dressed in leather
Hush, my mouth. The fools are a-listenin'
Past our graveyards they are a-whistlin'
Human beasts at you are a-bristlin'
And they're very mean
Stow that crap in what you're yappin'
Or report to the Dean!
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Excellent! I am not offended. Shine the light of day on the epithets, as long as the context is noble. Sunshine is the best disinfectant. 555.
Agree with Migger. Risky undertaking nicely done. The switch from original corny lyrics to violent prejudice was amusing. Silver is Scottish or Jewish. No matter. They're both tight-fisted. Bless them all.
It doesn't take talent to spew racial hatred in any form. If Jewish, this is indefensible.
There is a basic rule of communication: words take on meaning from context. The context of the parody portrays racists as fools and killers. Stereotypes are presented as so extreme as to be ridiculous. The use of racial epithets here is not just allowable; it is necessary. This is a parody of racists and racism.
Faireys and dykes? Apparently, homophobic too. Gutter mouth excrement from a writer that should know better. Middle finger extended three times 1-1-1
@ Disgusted: If you read Swift's "A Modest Proposal," you would accuse him of infanticide and cannibalism.
Offended and Disgusted should take their ultra-liberal, knee-jerk political correctness elsewhere. They have absolutely no common sense. Do they really think that this parody is an all-out racist, homophobic rant? Unbelievable! Silver would have to be crazy to do that, and he's not crazy. Look up a few words like EXAGGERATE and MOCKERY. I gave him 555 earlier, with no comment. I have read this parody several times. It scans beautifully. It's bold and outrageous and it hit every one of your holier-than-thou buttons. This is an effective ANTI-RACIST work. As a bonus, it has a few truly poetic lines. You two are deadly dull. That's the kindest thing I can say about you.
In a recent interview, Seth MacFarlane observed: I often wonder if “All in the Family” was on today, would there be the parade of blogs and think pieces we get now, which would say, “Archie used the N-word! This is outrageous! This shouldn’t be on TV!” People have gotten less tolerant because they can’t process context the way they used to.
Security Code HDD (Humor Deficit Disorder).
Security Code HDD (Humor Deficit Disorder).
Probably so because in the '70s racism was still tolerated by most white people. I remember in "Smokey & the Bandit" when Sheriff Justice asks where Sheriff Bradford is and the Black Sheriff answers back, "I AM Sheriff Bradford!" the response was, "You sounded a lot taller on radio, BOY" followed by, "What in the hell is the world coming to?" White people loved it. Black people, less so. All in the family, same thing- racism and bigotry, sexism and chauvinism, intolerance and white supremacy for laughs. But audiences matured over time. Racism is now vulgar and mostly intolerable. People know better and if Al thinks spouting off racial slurs mixed with intolerance against Gays is funny, then I suggest he move to the South and dress in white garb while waving the Confederate flag and lighting a cross on fire.
Offended, if you don't understand that the bigoted Archie Bunker was a caricature of a racist, and that the sitcom is a cultural landmark in the discrediting of racism, then you are a MEATHEAD! You still don't understand context, irony, subtlety -- the qualities that are the major components of intelligence. And FYI, the 70s was a great time for respectable Black sitcoms: Julia, Sanford and Son, Flip Wilson, Good Times, etc. Don't tell me that "most white people" tolerated racism then. What's your source for that? Just your own prejudices. Have you heard of the legislative successes of the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s? By the 70s, we had come a long way -- with a long way still to go -- from "Amos 'n' Andy" and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson of the 50s.
Looks like a lot of folks here are satire-challenged. "The wheels are yellow, the upholstery's brown" becomes "The Chinks are yellow, the rag-heads are brown." You gotta love it. Racists nowadays are never that blunt. Duh! Of course this is a caricature. If you're offended, you probably move your lips when you read.
Hey, Al, these hockey pucks think Don Rickles is a racist. Ignore them. I love ya.
You mean the same Don Rickles that made a racist joke about President Obama at the 2012 AFI Shirley MacLaine event as reported by The Hollywood Reporter saying, "I shouldn’t make fun of the blacks. President Obama is a personal friend of mine. He was over to the house yesterday, but the mop broke." He compared the first American Negro President to a janitor. What progress. But again, America was fed a steady diet of acceptable racism back when Rickles was popular. George Jefferson was a black version of Archie Bunker while on Good Times the fight was always against "The Man" for laughs. I would say progress was minimal. Just because the subject of racism became more open didn't mean any true progress was being made. In the '70s-80s many Black comedians like Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor talked about race and yet white people loved it twofold- blacks making fun of blacks and whites. Whites are seldom offended by Black attempts to counter the N- word with honkey for example. No effect and then came rap and Ebonics in the '90s which were setbacks IMO. Blacks were shutout of the Oscars time and again and so the only progress was keeping racism under the surface. Tolerating something is not the same as acceptance. No race or individual wants to be tolerated. And if so much progress has been made then explain Ferguson, No Justice No Peace, Freddie G, and the acts of a murderer in South Carolina who wanted to start a race war. Btw, is the still flying Confederate flag funny or the white South defense of it and slavery humorous? Just saying racist words is insensitive no matter what format. And I doubt Al researched all those slurs. He most likely used every damn one of them in life at some time. IF we're being honest in the twenty-first century.
Since one cannot separate the Confederacy from the issue of chattel slavery, then any Southerner that claims heritage for their hated flag is just saying, "I'm proud to support my racist region and racist relatives that fought to keep other human beings enslaved and tortured to death" How noble is that?
If just saying racist words is insensitive, there goes Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad, and a good part of the study of history. As for progress, your glass is always half-empty. We do have a Black President. And as for insensitive words, "Negro" is passée. Get with the program.
@Migger- shut-up you Michigan windbag. Yeah, some of us know what Migger means.
Um, there's another use of the word Migger which is disgraceful. It means Irish N-word. Basically, Mick + N-word. I don't like that or this shoddy parody.
I laughed my butt off at this. The ridiculous, politically correct little Groupthinkers around here deserve this often-used shock therapy. George Carlin, Lenny Bruce, and Joan Rivers, among many more, would heartily approve. Did anyone notice that a good deal of the parody was strongly anti-racist? Of course not. You were too busy wringing your hands sanctimoniously. And too scandalized to reward the excellent pacing.
In view of the recent tragic events involving Black victims, I decided to write an anti-racism parody. To my mind, there was only one effective way to do it, and that way was to skewer racists with their own ugly words and their own ugly stereotypes. And I had to go over-the-top so that readers would understand not to take the words at face value, but as mockery. To make my intentions abundantly clear, I called racists "fools" and "beasts." Well, I got mostly negative reviews, but nothing ventured... It's good to experiment.
I appreciate all the comments. The landscape of racism and how to deal with it got a pretty good going-over. Of course, the commenters who "got it" are very perceptive. Yet, there's a curious matter: every comment had a pseudonym attached to it! It's as if everybody walks on egg shells when the subject alludes to race in any way. How are we to bridge the racial gap if people with different experiences refuse to present themselves in the familiar contexts of their (virtual) beings?
I appreciate all the comments. The landscape of racism and how to deal with it got a pretty good going-over. Of course, the commenters who "got it" are very perceptive. Yet, there's a curious matter: every comment had a pseudonym attached to it! It's as if everybody walks on egg shells when the subject alludes to race in any way. How are we to bridge the racial gap if people with different experiences refuse to present themselves in the familiar contexts of their (virtual) beings?
Have you ever seen this short film where Bill Cosby "rants" about every racial, ethnic, etc. category of people (incl. blacks!) to prove that bigotry is wrong? Carroll O'Connor was not Archie Bunker. In a later show he portrayed a Southern sheriff who had a black wife or GF. He was an Irish Catholic and in his will he allotted funding for scholarships for blacks, Native Americans and such. Ever seen "Watermelon Man"? It starred Carl Weathers as a bigoted and sexist businessman (lousy "whiteface" job too) who one night "changes to Negro/black" (physically) and has to suffer the stigmas, prejudices and stereotypes blacks faced in 1970 and still unfortunately do today. This is a pejorative parody of how ugly racism is. When you put down a certain category of people thru prejudice and stereotypes, it eventually leads to violence because some people are portrayed as being less than human. Look at the Rwanda Genocide - state gov't radio (run by Hutus only) helped set it off. There's Yugoslavia. The Ferguson, MO area is where Rubbish Limburger has been broadcasting his hateful swill for over 25 years, calling it "conservatism". The Ferguson PD has a racist atmosphere. Even if that kid was rushing with a weapon to attack the cop, you don't need SIX BULLETS to stop him. While I don't agree with the toy company's decision to stop making General Lee (Dukes Of Hazzard) model cars (Robert. E. Lee was not a racist, he fought for state of Virginia homeland honor and he hated slavery), whatever local, historical or regional pride value it may have once had is LONG GONE. The Dixie flag is used almost exclusively by violent racists like the loser who offed 9 blacks in a church, neo-Nazi scum (Nazi punks, f*ck off!), wingnuts, Koo-koo Konehead Klods and more. This parody is a cool satirical attack on ignorance, hatred and biased attitudes and it gets from me a full 55555.
Gen. Lee was indeed a great, maybe the greatest, American general and a most honorable, loving, and agreeable man. We must not judge him by today's standards. Yet, during the Civil War, he owned well over a hundred slaves, favored the extension of slavery into the western territories and, like Lincoln, considered "Negroes" to be an inferior race. Having sworn allegiance to the Stars and Stripes, he nevertheless fought under the Confederate flag of Virginia at a time when 40% of Virginian soldiers fought for the Union. Technically, he was a traitor.
More than 10,000 Jews fought for the Confederacy. They were the largest ethnic contingent. Gen. Lee allowed his Jewish soldiers to observe all holy days, while Gens. Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman issued anti-Jewish orders.
Post-war, Gen. Lee was president of Washington and Lee University. In my opinion, monuments to the wartime Lee should be removed and tributes to him as a scholar and educator should be retained and expanded.
More than 10,000 Jews fought for the Confederacy. They were the largest ethnic contingent. Gen. Lee allowed his Jewish soldiers to observe all holy days, while Gens. Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman issued anti-Jewish orders.
Post-war, Gen. Lee was president of Washington and Lee University. In my opinion, monuments to the wartime Lee should be removed and tributes to him as a scholar and educator should be retained and expanded.
Just back from stay-cation, and missed the initial flurry. Your detractors must have missed the up-front absurdity of citing Canucks as a target of ethnic violence. I loved that, and many other lines. Well done! Unfortunately, more subtle and covert racism will be harder to extinguish than the hateful world portrayed by your lyrics.
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